 | William Waring - 1873 - 120 pages
...Penn, "is another testimony peculiar to this people. They affirm that Christianity teacheth people to beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks, and to learn war no more ; that so the wolf may lie down with the lamb, and the lion with the calf, and... | |
 | George Smith - 1879 - 690 pages
...God in mercy grant that in these regions, so repeatedly drenched with human blood, men may soon learn to 'beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks ; ' and thus cultivate the arts of peace, and make progress in the lessons and practice of heavenly piety !... | |
 | Fred Hovey Allen - 1881 - 314 pages
...that will dispense with the weapons which they have hitherto so universally worn, and they may proceed to " beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning.hooks — and learn war no more." "God will be their defense, and " — not Pontiff or Archduke, but — " the Holy... | |
 | 1894 - 636 pages
...He gathered a class of poor fishermen around him, and led them in the paths of peace. He taught them to beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks and to live in a brotherhood association, acting upon the principle of communism. He taught them to lay... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1898 - 410 pages
...industry and the competitions of peace were to supplant for ever the science of bloodshed. Nations were to beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks, and men were not to learn war any more. And this was on the eve of the Crimea — the most ruinous, the... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1898 - 398 pages
...industry and the competitions of peace were to supplant for ever the science of bloodshed. Nations were to beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks, and men were not to learn war any more. And this was on the eve of the Crimea — the most ruinous, the... | |
 | Chartered Insurance Institute - 1901 - 538 pages
...possible—and " 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd "—that the great trades unions may elect to beat " their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning-hooks "; and, instead of frittering away their hardly-earned and subscribed funds upon periodical and compulsory... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1902 - 322 pages
...be crucified before all this can be done. Would it please the present kings of Europe to tell them to beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks, and to learn war no more ? Would it be agreeable to their carnal, proud and haughty minds to submit to... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1911 - 826 pages
...error and false instruction would be for ever annihilated. He saw that this would cause all nations to " beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks ;" and that then would exist peace on earth and universal industry. He saw that when this would be accomplished,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1860 - 498 pages
...through all the native tribes of North America ; that they may be effectually instructed and persuaded " to beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks, and to love or learn war no more." My son and daughter G., sister K. and niece, join in sincere respect... | |
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Christianity teacheth people to beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks, and to learn war no more... 
